I did a tiny little list of outdoor projects for this spring/summer here, and if you click over, you will see no mention of removing a crap load of railroad ties and installing a new retaining wall. Honestly, it wasn't even on the radar until the weather was too nice not to tackle something ambitious. But now we have to get to the stuff we actually planned on accomplishing.
Or do we? We got an estimate on removing the trees (ash & pine) - $2600. So yeah, those trees are living to see another day. So cross that one off the list for this year.
Next up -- THE PATIO.
We figured that the work on the retaining wall should be done first so we have a level that we can work with since the spaces are adjacent. That way we wouldn't reset the patio and then realize that we needed to install a ton more dirt - or worse - dig out a ton of dirt in order to have everything level with each other. Now all we have to do is level the patio to the garden (much easier) and we're in business.
Yes, I know it. I'm delusional. I know we've done it backwards. We'll live, I promise :)
So in the spirit of procrastination, I decided to paint the rain barrel.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Cute, huh? Since it goes on the north side of the house which doesn't see the sun I painted it a very bright green (it doesn't look that bright when it's set in it's final resting place). Then I added some yellow and teal polka dots. For fun. We'll hook it up this weekend and can cross that one off the list. Oh, wait. It wasn't on a list.
Let me get my list and add it on there so I can cross it off :)
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